Alan Warner is the author of six other novels- Morvern Callar, These Demented Lands, The Man Who Walks, The Worms Can Carry Me To Heaven, The Stars in the Bright Sky, which was longlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize, and The Deadman's Pedal. He is Writer in Residence at Edinburgh University.
This quirky novel follows the progress of a group of convent girls let loose in Edinburgh for the day before their school choir competition (imagine St Trinian's, but with added 1990s temptations such as body-piercing and tequila). The girls' voices are fresh, funny and distinctive and you get a real sense of what it feels like to be embarking on adult life at the tail end of the century. (Kirkus UK)